Megaupload Shut Down, Owners Charged

A day after many websites and individuals on the Internet went dark in protest of SOPA / PIPA, federal prosecutors in the United States shut down the file sharing site Megaupload. Among the charges the site’s owners were cited with included copyright infringement, conspiracy to commit racketeering and money laundering. In a statement issued by […]

ACT NOW: PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks the Internet [Video]

IMPORTANT: Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! (Click!) PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or […]

The Night the Lights Went Out for SOPA

At 12am EST this morning, some of the Internet’s highest-traffic sites went black for twenty-four hours. This intentional blackout is in protest of SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act), a piece of legislation representing an attempt by the U.S. Congress to curb Internet piracy. We wrote about the bill previously, in regard to some previous […]

Dot Com Becomes Dot Whatever

Ten years after the “dot-com boom”, we’re about to experience the “dot-anythingyoulike” era. Despite criticisms, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will begin taking applications for new top level domains from tomorrow. The change is simple but dramatic: rather than having a limited number of top level domains (such as .com, .net, .org […]